So far, throughout this chapter, we've been working with the Spot Removal tool toapply healing. Here in this movie, I want to talk aboutthe differences between healing and cloning in order to retouch or remove ablemish that we have in this photograph. This is a photograph that I captured inone of my other courses. Here you can see there's a mic showing upin the top right hand corner of the frame. Well, I want to get rid of that mic andthat light in order to reduce and simplify this picture.Now, before we get to that though, let's zoom in on the photograph a little bit.To do that, press Command+Plus on a Mac or Control+Plus on Windows.

Then in order to illustrate how the Spot Removal tool works with healing or cloningclick on the tool or press the B key in order to select it.Now what we want to do here is increase the brush size, so tap the Right Bracketkey in order to choose a much longer brush size.We want to really huge brush size again this is just for demo purposes, then whatI want you to do is to click to the right of the subject to this photograph.And then, click and drag the circle over the subject.What this will do is it will bring another version of this over here, and again we'redoing this for demo purposes, to compare the difference between healing, and cloning.

Well to really see the difference, let's turn off the Overlay circles there andthen change between these two options. Here you can see the healing option.It blends in the top pretty nicely, but the underlined area isn't very god.Let's compare that say to cloning. With cloning you can see there are someedges which are softer. In most scenarios I found, that healingworks better. Yet, in certain situations you may want toclone the content over, which allows you to have this nice sort of diffused or softedge as you can see here in this area. Well, obviously, we don't want anotherversion of the bride over here. Yet it's helpful to see how thedifferences between cloning and healing allow us to bring content over.

Notice that with healing we have a more transparent look here.Cloning it's a little bit more of an exact replica of the subject, but we have thissoft edge. Alright.Well, click clear all. Let's go ahead and get rid of that andthen I'll zoom out a little bit so we can view our problem area.Well, the problem area is up here. So, with this nice big brush let's clickand then go ahead and sample a new area over here.Well, I'll zoom in that a little bit so that you can see how the results actually look.If we turn off the overlay by clicking on this icon and compare the two.Well, here's healing what we typically use.

It does a decent job. It recreates some texture.Here's cloning. In this case it gives us really nice sortof soft transitions. And here with this image, they both workand yet what I like a little bit better is the cloning option, especially when I zoom out.When I look at the healing option, I don't think the edges look quite as nice as thatcloning does. And sometimes what you'll see is that you'll want to use a little bit of both in certain situations you may want to cloneand heal. Let's go ahead and continue to talk aboutthis and look at another photograph in the next movie.

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Get in-depth training on Camera Raw 8, the Photoshop component that enables photographers to make nondestructive corrections and improvements to photographs. This installment of Photoshop CC for Photographers takes you deep into selective adjustments and blemish corrections. Author Chris Orwig shows how to enhance eyes and whiten teeth with the Adjustment Brush, correct overexposed skies with the Graduated Filter tool, and remove general dust, noise, and scratches. Then dive into the Curves and HSL controls for improving color and tone. Chris also includes a section on Camera Raw's Lens Correction toolset for removing distortion and chromatic aberration in your photographs. Last but not least, discover how to harness presets, actions and the batch processing power of Bridge, and camera calibration controls to speed up your workflow and get great looking results every time.

Topics include:

Correcting exposure

Making selective adjustments with Auto Mask

Brightening shadows and darkening highlights

Enhancing the color, tone, and sharpness of the eyes

Removing Moiré patterns

Creative color and effects with the Graduated Filter

Improving exposure and adding blur with the Radial Filter

Retouching skin

Removing distracting background elements

Working with the tone curve

Removing color with HSL

Split toning a color photo

Removing extreme distortion with the Lens Profile

Adding grain

Creating and applying Camera Raw presets

Skill Level Intermediate

4h 57m

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Q: This course was updated on 7/10/2014. What changed?

A: We added videos covering the new Preview feature, introduced in Camera
Raw 8.4, and duplicating Adjustment Brush
settings. Chris also revised the chapters on the Graduated Filter and
Radial Filter tools. Check out the "What's new?" movie for an overview
of these changes and the other enhancements Adobe introduced
in the 2014 update to Photoshop CC.

Q: This course was updated on 10/14/2014. What
changed?

A: We added two new movies, which describe changes to the
preview behavior in Photoshop CC 2014.1 and the new improved spot removal with
feathering. New movies contain the "CC 2014.1" tag next to their
names.